Art in the Hellenistic Age

Art in the Hellenistic Age
Author: Jerome Jordan Pollitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1986-06-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521276726

This 1986 book is an interpretative history of Greek art during the Hellenistic period.

Hellenistic Sculpture

Hellenistic Sculpture
Author: Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780299118242

Now available in paperback, this rigorous and challenging book questions the Hellenistic dating of many famous monuments, based on careful examination of evidence. "Fluently written, clearly organized, and thoroughly and impeccably documented. Anyone who has a serious interest in Hellenistic art will want to read it and refer to it."--Jerome J. Pollitt, Yale University

Epigrams from the Anthologia Latina

Epigrams from the Anthologia Latina
Author:
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1849667829

This new scholarly edition consists of the Latin text, with translation and detailed commentary, of a sequence of epigrams from the Anthologia Latina (Shackleton Bailey 78-188). The introduction discusses whether these epigrams constitute a unified collection and are the work of a single author, examines their likely date and place of composition – which, it is argued, is North Africa under Vandal rule –, and sets them in their cultural context. The line-by-line commentary covers issues of literary, linguistic and historical significance. Although text and interpretation of these pieces present frequent difficulties, the author confirms that they make up a fascinating collection of considerable importance and merit, contrary to the low reputation generally associated with the Anthologia Latina. The book will be of great interest to students of Latin literature and language in general, the epigram tradition in particular, and the culture of Vandal Africa.

Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece

Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece
Author: Jonas Grethlein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198848293

Drawing on cognitive approaches to literary studies, this volume pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative that transcends the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies, deploying concepts such as immersion and embodiment in order to establish a more comprehensive understanding of ancient Greek narrative and ancient reading habits.

Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology

Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology
Author: Luke Roman
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2010
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1438126395

Greek and Roman mythology has fascinated people for more than two millennia, and its influence on cultures throughout Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East attests to the universal appeal of the stories. This title examines the best-known figures of Greek and Roman mythology together with the great works of classic literature.

Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art

Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
Author: Graham Zanker
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008-02-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0299194531

Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans’ defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences. Zanker’s exciting new interpretations closely compare poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander concepts in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand.

Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology

Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology
Author: Nancy Thomson de Grummond
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1579
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134268610

With 1,125 entries and 170 contributors, this is the first encyclopedia on the history of classical archaeology. It focuses on Greek and Roman material, but also covers the prehistoric and semi-historical cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean, the Etruscans, and manifestations of Greek and Roman culture in Europe and Asia Minor. The Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology includes entries on individuals whose activities influenced the knowledge of sites and monuments in their own time; articles on famous monuments and sites as seen, changed, and interpreted through time; and entries on major works of art excavated from the Renaissance to the present day as well as works known in the Middle Ages. As the definitive source on a comparatively new discipline - the history of archaeology - these finely illustrated volumes will be useful to students and scholars in archaeology, the classics, history, topography, and art and architectural history.